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June 28, 1954
June 23, 2010
June 23, 2010
Jeremy Duncan Ross died June 23, 2010 just five days short of his 56th birthday.
Tall, cheerful and loud, with a great sense of humor, Jeremy had a presence that was not often missed. Friends would know he was at a meeting when they spotted his yellow car in the parking lot.
Jeremy was born in Nottingham, England, on June 28, 1954, to William Duncan Ross & Mariane Lys Ross, joining his older sister, Joanna. Six years later his brother, Jonathan, arrived, and they became a family of five.
The Ross family settled in the Seattle area in 1966, where Jeremy attended school, played basketball and soccer and earned the nickname “Duke” from his teammates. The name stuck and all his friends knew him as “Duke”. After high school, he earned a degree in drama from USC and moved back to Seattle making a living with sports radio broadcasting, stand-up comedy and bartending. His biggest passion in life was sports.
“The Sonics Guy,” “Count of the Key,” and “Rally-Rally Man” are names familiar to any Sonics fan. Waving his scarf, encouraging the crowd to join him in cheering and yelling at the referees, he was almost as entertaining as the players themselves. When fan support...
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